Subject: Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/24/2003 22:56:24
[ Reply-To set to me: This is probably off topic for all of the lists:
all of the ones I read, anyway. ]
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:03:53AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > 2. How does it differ? What are the technical reasoning
> > behind the decisions?
>
> They differ in most technical areas. Mainly as the *BSD kernels were
> derived from 4.4-Lite, and Linux was derived, I believe, from Minux.
Point of order: Linux was a cleanroom implementation, using IIRC Minux
as the host OS until such time as it became self-hosting.
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